# Feature request: Persistent sort order for notebooks

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-request-persistent-sort-order-for-notebooks/3735>\
**Category:** Feedback\
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-request-persistent-sort-order-for-notebooks/3735 "2020-08-18T22:30:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![aaronkyle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/aaronkyle/32/8106_2.png) [@aaronkyle](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/aaronkyle)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-request-persistent-sort-order-for-notebooks/3735/12 "2020-12-30T12:46:16Z")

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> [@mootari](#):
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> I have over 400 notebooks (and growing)

Wow! Looks like just a handful. I sorta imagined you (and several others) would have counts in the thousands. I have **3,751** notebooks and a very rough time finding anything.

I appreciated when @wiltsecarpenter released the notebook on [searching within Observable](https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/searching-on-observable) , which helped a lot. Nested [collections](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/collections-enhancements/3779) was also a real enhancement when that came out. But I generally still ache for persistent sort order, a bit more of a UI centered means of searching my collections [again, thanks that we can now achieve this with attributes], and also some means of filtering for time ranges, including differentiating between ‘created’ and ‘modified’ as @bumbeishvili [also requests here](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-request-again-advanced-notebook-search/1118).

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